Greenwire headlines — Wednesday, February 26, 2014 — 12:58 PM

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5:44 PM

The State Department adhered to its conflict-of-interest rules in choosing a private contractor to craft the final environmental review of Keystone XL but should improve its communication about those standards, the agency's inspector general said today in a hotly anticipated report on the pipeline.

SPOTLIGHT

CHICAGO -- Tim Bishop, a member of his law firm's "green committee," has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and clerked for two judges considered heroes of the environmental movement, and has been described by a former top U.S. EPA official as "quite liberal" early in his career. It's not what you'd expect of a lawyer considered a top gun for industry in environmental cases before the Supreme Court.